THE FISHING SEASON.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14844, 9 December 1913, Page 2

THE FISHING SEASON.

GOOD SPORT AT THE LAKES. (By R.A.8.) '■ Numerically fly enthusiasts obtained tho "best results in. the Selwyn on Saturday. In the lower reaches of the river, one angler creeled twenty fine trout, and at Greendale two anglers secured twenty-eight fish, all on fly. i Bully adherents killed six, six, and five fish respectively, below the huts. The Cam yielded-twenty-six excellent trout on fly, and thero were also a fow smaller baskets obtained in the Ashley, near Rangiora. -Minnows still account for a goodly number-of trout in tho Rakaia, a recent basket being six fish, largest 81b. ; I gather that the party of four nriglers who, as I mentioned in my i Saturday notes, was. about to. pay a j visit to some of the back lakes, found :to their disappointment that Lake ; Hawdun did not, as far as could be ascertained, contain any.rainbow trout, i It is apparently an ideal sheet of water , for this class of fish, and no reason can : be assigned for its failure to respond to the efforts of the local Acclimatisation Society, which, it is reported, turned in a considerable number of rainbow ! yearlings about 3$ years eince. An adjoining lake, Mary Mere, or, as it is locally called, "Horseshoe," is spleni didly stocked with brown trout, and the party had some magnificent sport I with tho fly, 331b boine the smallest J fish captured, and 61b the largest, all jin perfect condition. It is believed that much larger fish exist in the lake. ; Owing to its situation, it is necessary to camp at the. lake, and to take all supplies, but given favourable conditions, rm angler is tolerably certain of a very big- basket. Anelers are fortunate in having a society which ia keenly alive to the possibilities of stocking the back-country !nkes. which, in tbe writer's 'opinion, will in the near future bo recognised as regular vacation spots, and will provide such sport ns .will "gladden tho heart of the most pessimistic. .■